
Product details
- Blick SKU
- 86319-2540
About this product range
Schmincke Horadam Aquarell Half Pans are individually optimized and formulated using the highest-quality pigments, water-soluble resins, and natural gums. Produced in Germany since 1881, the company is now owned by the fourth generation of the original family. Today the line includes an array of brilliant, intense, professional-quality colors — many of them with the highest lightfastness ratings of 4 or 5 stars. Smooth flowing and intermixable, colors that have dried on the palette can be reactivated with a wet brush.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Coral Red
- Pigment code
- PR255
- Type
- organic
- Properties
- Ciba describes PR255 as a yellowish red pigment with medium hiding power and excellent weather resistance, recommended for use in high grade decorative and industrial paints.
- Permanence
- Pigment Red 255 has excellent lightfastness and weatherfastness at full strength, and can be used for outdoor applications.
- History
- Pigment Red 255 has been used in paint, plastics, printing inks, and automotive finishes.
- Description
- Pyrrole Scarlet.
Indanthrene Blue
- Pigment code
- PB60
- Type
- organic, vat dyes
- Chemical name
- complex, insoluble anthraquinone
- Chemical formula
- C28H14N2O4
- Properties
- Indanthrene Blue is a clear, clean, deep blue organic pigment. It has moderate to high tinting strength and is not as overpowering as Phthalo Blue. Hansa Yellow Deep, Benzimidazolone Orange, and Raw Umber are its best mixing complements.
- Permanence
- Indanthrene Blue is permanent with excellent lightfastness in both masstone and tints.
- Toxicity
- Indanthrene Blue varies in its acute toxicity, though toxicity is generally slight.
- History
- Indanthrene Blue is the oldest vat dye, discovered and patented in 1901 by Rene Bohn. It is considered the first anthraquinone vat dye, a group of dyes characterized by excellent lightfastness. The pigment originates from this dye.
- Description
- Indanthrone.
Benzimidazolone Orange
- Pigment code
- PO62
- Type
- organic, monoazo
- Chemical formula
- C17H13ClN6O5
- Properties
- Benzimidazolone Orange is a staining, yellowish orange pigment that can become dull in tints. It has an average drying time, and it loses some of its intensity as it dries. The yellowish orange varieties are more transparent.
- Permanence
- Benzimidazolone Orange has excellent lightfastness and outstanding heat and solvent stability for a monoazo pigment.
- Toxicity
- Benzimidazolone Orange is not considered toxic.
- History
- The benzimidazolone group of pigments was developed and patented in 1960 by Hoechst A.G., a German chemical manufacturer that was a forerunner of the pharmaceutical company Aventis. Use of benzimidazolone pigments in the auto industry, especially Benzimidazolone Orange, became common in the 1980s because they were common replacements for lead chromate pigments, which were phased out during this period.
- Description
- Permanent Orange, Benzimida Orange
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